I have a flock of 6 hens, my girls were born in May 2023 & are all laying, my issue is my Sliver Sasso has been laying soft shells & the eggs are being crush in the nesting box I check the boxes on a regular basis and early in the morning.
All my other girls are laying hard shell eggs, I...
This post is a year and a half old and the one that posted it hasn't been online for nearly a year so I'm kinda doubting they'll answer.
You could try the Canadian thread here, or search Sasso with the search button.
Info on SASSO
I have been looking into getting a couple of SASSO and here is an interesting website I found for them.
https://northamerica.sasso-poultry.com/en/
https://northamerica.sasso-poultry.com/en/breeding/concepts/label-rouge-certified/
From a quick read, Sasso are high production hens, so she may need more calcium or just is not eating/getting the calcium she needs.
Give her 1 Calcium Citrate with D3 tablet daily for a week and see if that makes a difference. Just pop the tablet right into the beak and let her swallow.
Thank you to all who have welcomed me. Here is where we live, the birds are on the slope below the koi pond, the mountain in the background is the Gran Sasso, tallest peak in Italy outside the Alps at just under 10k ft asl, beach is 15 miles the other way. Ciao
Hi there from a fellow Canadian in Quebec! I was looking to add some Sasso hens to our small backyard flock. How have your Sasso’s been? Do they lay well? Have they handled the cold, and are they noisy? Thank you!!
...brown eggs) which is a cross between the Marans and other local French breeds, at the Hendrix R&D facility in France.
They also produce the SASSO lines that are becoming popular in many parts of the world. I was thinking of getting some Azur but now leaning towards the SASSO Irona as they...
I never heard of those before. Reading about them I can tell you this. Sasso was breeding slow growth meat poultry from the 1950s, and specialized in chickens intended to get what we call "label rouge", a quality label for meat chicken. In 2016 they were bought by Hendrick's genetics, the...
...growing up until we moved when I was 14(mainly Rhode Island Red and game chickens). In the past few years I have gotten back into chickens. I have some Black Australop layers now and about a dozen Delaware roosters that I am raising for meat. I have some Sasso broilers ordered for next spring.